---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial fishing: lobster management."
description: "Existing law prescribes the construction and dimensions of a wire lobster trap."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 291"
citation: "California AB 291 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial fishing: lobster management."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Saldana"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 41
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2009-02-13"
last_action: "2010-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fd7769c-4679-46a5-8a16-4f1e595539f4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291"
source_hash: "ae250efca3042748cd6019749df74974eb43cdc097bb2001f6fbface8ae17aa9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 291 (20092010) — Commercial fishing: lobster management.

Existing law prescribes the construction and dimensions of a wire lobster trap.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/13/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29199INT)
2. **03/26/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29198AMD)
3. **04/22/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29197AMD)
4. **05/11/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29196AMD)
5. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29195AMD)
6. **08/20/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29194AMD)
7. **09/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29192CHP)
8. **AB291** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291)
9. **09/10/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB291&version=20090AB29193ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB291 Saldana By Ducheny — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 291 Saldaa Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB291 Saldana By Lowenthal — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB291 Saldana Reconsider — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 291 SALDANA Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Saldana — primary (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Ruskin — coauthor (person)
- Swanson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2009-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-22** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-05-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 6.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-26** Action rescinded and record expunged whereby a final roll call vote was taken.
- **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 1759.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-07-13** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-08-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Read third time, passage refused. (Ayes 16. Noes 22. Page 2336.) `reading-3, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Lowenthal.
- **2009-09-09** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2336.)
- **2009-09-10** To inactive file on motion of Senator Lowenthal.
- **2010-08-20** From inactive file.
- **2010-08-20** To second reading.
- **2010-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-24** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2010-08-24** To second reading.
- **2010-08-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4963.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2010-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 67. Noes 8. Page 6865.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2010-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 565, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fd7769c-4679-46a5-8a16-4f1e595539f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).